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In this briefing for Committee stage (part 4) of the Victims and Prisoners Bill, we ask Peers to focus on three key areas

Joint Briefing to support First Lords Amendment (substituted Clause 1) to Government's immigration bill

Letter to Minister for Border Security and Asylum concerning asylum and enforcement, January 2025; and reply of Minister, February 2025

This resource urges peers to reject the Safety of Rwanda Bill at Third Reading, warning that it still breaches human rights obligations and reflects a harmful, failed deterrence‑based asylum policy.

Joint Briefing on Amendment 5 (international human rights law compliance) to Government HL Bill 148

Amnesty International UK briefing for House of Lords Second Reading of Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill

This briefing explains how the Bill would arbitrarily deprive British children of their citizenship rights based on the actions of others, including in cases of exploitation.

The briefing sets out the feeble nature of those legal proceedings and the extraordinary degree to which the Home Secretary is empowered to control them.

Amnesty International briefing on Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill, Commons Second Reading 3 July 2023

This briefing supports Lords consideration of the British Nationality (Regularisation of Past Practice) Bill and is produced with PRCBC, ILPA and the3million.

The briefing sets out why and how this Bill is an affront to access to justice, to legality, to human rights and to British citizenship.

The briefing sets out the profound harm this bill will do to British people, including many British children, by arbitrarily depriving them of their rights to British citizenship

This analysis explains how the Safety of Rwanda Bill, introduced in December 2023, seeks to override Supreme Court rulings that the Rwanda plan is unlawful, limit future judicial scrutiny, and raises serious principled and legal concerns.

Amnesty UK briefing on Government Amendments for House of Commons Report on Government Bill 284 ("Illegal Migration Bill")

Amnesty UK briefing for House of Commons Report and Third Reading on Government Bill 284 ("Illegal Migration Bill")

This briefing supports Commons consideration of the British Nationality (Regularisation of Past Practice) Bill and is produced with PRCBC, ILPA and the3million.

This briefing is for Days 4 & 5 of House of Lords' Committee consideration of the Government's Immigration Bill, HL Bill 133 on 12 & 14 June 2023.

This joint briefing summarises the clear impropriety of this Bill's impact on rights to British citizenship. The Bill's similar impact on rights to other British nationality is equally improper.

This briefing is for Days 2 & 3 of House of Lords' Committee consideration of the Government's Immigration Bill, HL Bill 133 on 5 & 7 June 2023.